Setting up Windows boxes to be usable…

“The goal of this project is to provide a central place to share ideas for streamlining dev box setup and provide sample scripts for common dev scenarios. It’s likely you will want to take the scripts here and modify them to fit your particular needs.”

For the last few years, they’ve been releasing Windows as a prebuilt VM, with most of the developer tools preinstalled. These VMs expire after a few weeks, so you’ll have to download a new VM every few weeks. [There’ve been periods of multiple weeks where there’s no VM available, waiting for the next build of Windows, so keep your old bits and hope expiration policy does not become more draconian.]